Brooker et al. (2002) conducted a systematic review of research into the mental health of prisoners. Their final report included a review of the epidemiology of the prison population, an overview of the interventions used ...

A small but significant number of people die during restraint by hospital staff, police or prison officers. One possible mechanism for this has been termed 'positional asphyxia'. There is literature to suggest that deaths ...

Purpose: Positive professional attitudes towards personality-disordered clients have been linked with extensive clinical and strategic benefits. The largest influences upon such attitudes are associated with staff training, ...

The Primrose Project has been developed, as part of the Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme in England and Wales, to specifically address the complex needs of women prisoners who pose a ...

Deinstitutionalization, the closure of mental hospital beds and changes to commitment laws were highly touted initiatives that provided the backbone of mental health reform policies implemented in many countries in the ...

There is a lack of outcome evidence for alcohol interventions for offenders whose crime is alcohol related. In this study, the authors report the intermediate outcomes of a feasibility study for a randomized controlled ...

Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of clinical psychiatry which requires special legal and criminological knowledge and experience in the treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Forensic psychiatrists should have ...

A survey of the motives associated with homicide in northern Nigeria was conducted based on an interview of a sample of convicted homicide offenders in a Nigerian federal prison. 118 subjects with a mean age of 33.9 +/- ...

The clinico-forensic aspects of homicide in northern Nigeria are presented, based on an interview of 118 subjects comprising 85% of homicide convicts at the Jos federal prison: Although psychotic motives and acute alcohol ...